Today’s Mono Lake Moment takes you on a quiet walk down the David Gaines Memorial Boardwalk at Old Marina. Where the boardwalk ends, you can see a frozen freshwater spring emerging from the base of an exposed tufa tower—a glimpse into how tufa forms underwater by fresh calcium-laden groundwater bubbling up into the lake and swirling with the carbonate-rich lake water to form solid calcium carbonate (CaCO3) that slowly builds the tufa tower.
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